The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-01-28
RUSSIA'S SOVEREIGN.
AN ESCAPED S1rffLIsr's STORY
a Relic Of Siberin's Icy CliuCs Lives to Tell
tho Story OF the Cxnt's Private Habits.
A Drunken md Very Reckless "
Monarch - How he Acts.

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and Gays" The speaker was q tall, well
built man Of martial bearing, wearing {
closely cropped head OF brown hair and G
full beard. His blus eyes lay deep back
In their sockets, and hia face, pale and
thin, showed he had recently undergone
intense physical and mental suffering.
! He isa Nihilist who arrived hero bat a
short time ago in the North German
Lloyd Vera. He hau sought q tempors.
ry asylum in Blocker street, in the fami.
ly Of French communist. His main task
just now is TO recruit his shattered health,
For reasons which will presently appear,
he conceals his real name and station. In
this interview he is therefore dengnated
as NJ. Michaeloi1, q good enough Kussien
name. ,Ho belonged till recently to the
immediate entouruge OF the CIR, and IA a
soldier by training and profession.
THE EscApE.
N. Michaeloa, according to his story.
became convert to the Nihilin.ic creed
several yeara ago and belonged to one Of
the military circles" having several ad-
herents IN the Winter Palace. It geems
that carly last november some ysldsbie in.
formation was given to the head local
Executive circle" Of the Nlhilists in st..
Petersburg, this information being in the
nature Of some intended changes to be
made in the location OF the imperial
apartments, as well aa to the movements
OF the Emperor himself This informa-
tion was communicated to other "circes." I"
aud in this transmission, by reason of n
sligh! oversight, the secret police became
aware OF 1t. On December 9th laat Mr..
MlchseloE was arrested, and two days later
sentenced. by direct order OF the Gar, TO
be transported forthwith TO the Yoniseisk
district in Siberia. While on the way to
Moscow tho prisoner escaped. AS it
would implcate several others etill resi-
dent in Ruasia, NJ. Michaeloa declines to
dlvulge the exact particulars OF his escape
ana OF his further flight across the Russo
Austrian frontier. After reaching cracow
he had no great difficulty in commuuicat-
ing with friends in Paris, and from them
ne obtained come iunds and letters to aid
him in reaching New York. The refugee,
speaking Of the doing OF his Nihilis.ic
brethren and Of the recent exploits OF his
late master, the Gar, said, in fluent
French, to the reporter:
ut is q mistake Of the English and
American press 10 suppose that the reyo.
lutlonary party in Russia has been idle OF
late. The fact is that the press censorship
has, during the past four months, i. e,
since the beginning OF this Bulgarian
squabole, been CT such draconian severity
as has never bsea kaoTn, even in Russis.
Private mail and dispatches have alike
been scrutin!Sad with argus eyes, and the
least reference 10 ANYTHING Objectionable
has been deemed sufficient to dessray the
letter or the message. We're it not 80 it
| would be inexplicabse how recent senss-
tlonel news from St. Petersburg could be
80 completely suppressed. The Nihiiists
have never been better organized nor
have they had more powerful and influen.
tial allies in government circles than now.
l predict that before another six months
are gone Alexander III. will have follow
ed bis iather-a much better and abler
man-lnto the grave, or else there will
nave been revolutionary uprising and he
will have been dethroned..
| Aak AsohsslNallVS STORY.
You've heard the story here, too, OF
tue assassination OF Count Reutern, sn
Imperial aide-de.csmp, by the Gar. Well,
that story, although widely and repeatedly
denied through the influence Of the Rus.
sian Government, was perfectly true. The
CIR shot him dead on the spot, Just as
the officer WAS on the point Of haudin.
him q letter. And what is more, Count
Reutern belonged to US, and the Gar had
been warned against him by Count
ioistoi. Although extraordinary pains
were token to keep the deed secret, it
because known in st. Petersburg. Right
IN the wake OF this occurrence followed an
investigation, ordered and assisted by the
Gar. The victims who were gathered in
by the police and who Tere-without pre-
vlous trial, in the administrative way
subsequently Cxilei to Eastern Siberia
were the following: Count Z-bolotf.
Baron Maximieh, Counsellor Abi!iei
(htad OF the passport bureaa), Worshlz-
KY and hlsdlno, the last two belonging to
the imperlal household. Several others
IN the plot we're not discovered by the no.
lice, and two Of them are still in Jail in the
Russian capital. There were many more
with us in the great enterprise, which
proved abortiye at that time, but as they
had been assigned different roles their
names did not transp!re and they are cafe
as yet. But a great plot Ia brewing at
present. The Nihilist6 are not alone more
numerous in st. Petersburg than ever, but
are also, better organized and better equip.
ped with all needed means to make their
moves during the coming six months sue.
cessful. 1t would be betrayiug the cause
to speak more definitely than / hays ione
at this iuncture.''
THE czAR's TEMPER.
"What about the Gar? Is bis temper
really 80 violent and ierocious as has been
said occaslonally2 And does he really
drink 30 hard 2" queried the reporter.
"The Emperor ia confirmed, hope.
less slave to liquor, and he hiss apslls ior
months past which l understand to be
premonitory signs OF delrium tremens.
Since the relations between Germany and
Russia have ceased to be strained, at least
for the time being, the official press in
Germany has taken grea. pains to deny
the news published at first, without Biz
marck's interference, Of a brutal attack
made by Alexander III, upon the mill
tary attache OF the German emembassy in
St Petersburg, Colonel Vuillaume, butthas
report, too, was true. 1t is said that in his
first anger this German officer, gallant
soldier, came near reta!isting, and had
thresteuing motion toward the Russian
sovereign, when lie was called back and
hurried of the scene by Others who had
stood near him at the time. This incident
happened Gt the time when war between
Russia and Germany seemed probable, a
short time before my arrest, and the Gar
was at that particular moment ugly with
liquor. The very gnawing fear OF meeting
the fate Of his father, together with the
consciousness that bis sin againet hi. peo.
is daily becoming mora enormous and ir-
redeemable, ia Whist has driven the
emperor to drink. Ho knows that he
stands on, the brink OF volcano whose
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